Yazan Abdeen

Yazan is the Chief Executive Officer & Portfolio Manager of AD Investment Management, a UAE based asset management firm that is licensed by the FSRA in ADGM and the CSSF in Luxembourg. Yazan leads an asset management practice that has a mission to provide clients, communities, capital markets and shareholders with sustainable investment solutions by committing smart people, independent financial thought and disciplined processes. Briefly before, Yazan was heading capital markets investing for Scope Investment, a sovereign private family office in the UAE. Prior to that Yazan headed MENA Capital Markets investing at Sedco Capital in Saudi Arabia where he built the "multi-award winning" MENA in-house asset management business. Yazan was previously the fund manager with ING Investment Management within MENA based in Dubai. Yazan has over 16 years of experience analyzing and valuing companies in the region. In his previous role at Union Properties, Yazan headed the investment division where he was responsible for managing the proprietary public equity portfolio investing in the MENA capital markets. The team also oversaw a portfolio of private equity investments in the Dubai real estate sector and related industries. Yazan was a vice president of asset management at Noor Capital, Abu Dhabi, responsible for the structuring and co-managing of the MENA Opportunity Fund and Noor Capital’s proprietary public equity portfolio. He also spent two years at Damac Investments, where he co-managed a MENA public equity portfolio. Yazan started his career at Capital Trust, Lebanon, as a corporate finance analyst within a team which provided corporate finance and M&A advisory for various transactions in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and KSA. Yazan holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and an MBA from London Business School sponsored by HH Shiek Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum Foundation.